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Hyperion
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"What a strange picture a University presents to the imagination. The lives of scholars in their cloistered stillness;--literary men of retired habits, and Professors who study sixteen hours a day, and never see the world but on a Sunday. Nature has, no doubt, for some wise purpose, placed in their hearts this love of literary labor and seclusion. Otherwise, who would feed the undying lamp of thought? But for such men as these, a blast of wind through the chinks and crannies of this old world, or the flapping of a conqueror's banner, would blow it out forever. The light of the soul is easily extinguished. And whenever I reflect upon these things I become aware of the great importance, in a nation's . . . Read More
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This is quite an old book, so obviously I can't write anything new about it. It's definitely a strange old book, because it doesn't really go anywhere. The main character is traveling across Germany, meets a couple old friends, falls in love, she breaks his heart and then...nothing.
The first part of
Published for the first time in 1839, this prose romance is one of Longfellow's first works (he was born in 1807) and has sold rather poorly, until the fame of the poet has changed the general opinion.
The main character is an American named Paul Flemming who has lost a dear friend and is on his way
"Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate,
Who ne'er the mournful, midnight hours
Weeping upon his bed has sate,
He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers."